Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...87th birthday, Publisher William Randolph Hearst got a heart-warming fan note: "As you round another year in the dedication of your firm voice, indomitable will and great moral courage to the building of an invincible America in an uneasy world, I send my warm admiration and gratitude for your unfailing faith and support which has been a source of constant strength . . . [signed: General Douglas] MacArthur...
...seemed more subdued than the rest of the family, nobody noticed it. As he carried the two suitcases into the Los Angeles Municipal Airport his two youngsters looked eagerly for the DC-3 that was to take them to San Diego in celebration of young Bobby's fifth birthday...
...busy week for Britain's royal family. Queen Mary ventured forth to the theater for the first time this year and King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visited Stratford-on-Avon for the Shakespeare birthday celebrations. Backstage, the King noticed that the Order of the Garter had been improperly laid out on Actor Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh...
Copey also gave annual readings at the Harvard Club of New York. In addition, the Charles Townsend Copeland Association--a group of his former students--held a New York birthday dinner in his honor every year...
Copey was one member of the famed literature-teaching trio at the University which included the late George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English, and Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, emeritus, who will himself celebrate his 90th birthday in November...